The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-10-21
THE AyOYEllEs CASE.
Attempted Theft Of a Parish BY tho Re-
formers.

i NNlsAANA D.
New orleans Times. Democrat
A cooler, more deliberate purpose 20 nullifY
Tie Will 0f tile people. ana To Steal their
franchises, WAS never attempted than the
effort IN this direction made bY the re-
fermeraH Of AFoyelles. TIE TnIHs. DEHooRAT
has heretofore commented on The action on
that occasion Of sir. Barbin, the chairman
Of the Democratic Executive Committee, and
q pronounced Nichols man. whose arbitrary
rlliin8 was promptly met Bg tia detersngnnd
action Of Tho large majority OK tho convene
\ tioH This majority, duly elected al the
\ priniafias held la lhe various wards of die
parish on tho preceding Saturday, aippurted
\ Col r. Thorpe for Congress. They or
gapized convention with 55 delegates, a
clear majority % is Of the 90 delegates
chosen tn the parish convention BIZ the peo-
plel end elected g delegates TO the Congress
After fhese delegates refused 70 submit to
4 tbs dictaHnn ~ the minority aided and
! Abetted BY Judge BaFhin thRt miporltg cons
4 Bisting of thirtysseYen regularly elected dele
/ ketea organized rump SET up c0nteedng
/ delegations from the BarQdlnG and Ever
/ green Heldsi seated the contestants aud az
| loved Qna OK the regularly ELECTED delegates
I from Ghonpiqne WhQ betrayed his fellow
delegatos, 70 cast HE ton gQtes Of the verdi
\ and thus aecnred q fictltlqna quorum, and
went through NE farce q eleoting delegates
I
1 Ihat the Whole matter may be fnlly under
/ Stood, TIE I9ml.s- DEltoGRAf furnishes here
4 with brief review Of tue primaries ~ the
wards 81 Agoyeliles parish ~ which Thorpe
Ia Moreanvilio, electing aeyen delegates,
/ there vas no Opposition ticket, tho Thorpe
~ Bayou Rouge Prairie, Zone delag@tel, the
/ Thorpe ticket Was The only one ~ the Aeld,
/ RECEIVING tle UNANIMOUS Y9ae;
p leland uolr @elegatasl, the Thorpe
/ ticket Was elected without opposition.
IN Borodiilo tthree delegatesl, two tickets
| we're in the field. The Thorpe ticket carried
/ the ward and II 0asa0 returned hg the com
| ground that nine voters had boon refused the
4 right to vote. The contest WAS baHelese, from
l the faet that the PROPOSED voters did not live
III TIE precinct and Nsre refused on that
III siinaport seven delegates tho Thorpe
ticket was elected without opposition.
IN ghQEpispe ~ 2 lelesetesl, the RhQrpe
| eeiFed % unanim03is vote. There vas no eon-
test set up until the delegates appeared in
| VIC parish cQlFetton, The ten votes Qf
eboslplqle Eere 9ps,2lilleig naeeAsa5 7 ~ tle
contest wltn9it gtyine any FeaRong therefor
"a contest mage by lilHIt WHO Vas NOT even
q resident W ills ward, and which had no
eeeded III getting one 81 The regularly elected
/ dele estes -Atncred akayen1T-t0 deGelt hia
co-deiegates aud ION Their rnlup Their own
4 ANIHlAifNtE VI kfFQEAAAlfkH NtNNAtu kiihA fAtt
IhQrpe delega4on Mss regularly elected,
seated Aiayepx, and allowed him to CAST the
entirg ten votes nl tila Natd Ihus wAs b sos
ea.led gupfuni selectedl End thus WY ire-
III Rcrdei0ngillo 70 delegated, TIE Thorpe
ticket waa the only ono III the field and re-
celYea the epilre vote east.
IN Black Box q delegRtesi INC Thorpe
is Hamburg q delegateN, Tho Thorpe
Ticket qllso received the unanimous yote; no
iii Ii yerEreen Il delegates, another Ok the
I enNtNsted b0xHR, HE t'reforDtefsN claim tlSt
theg held \ little cllectiqIt ef theiF OVID ~ gida
/ tleg let INTO their eeoret Was AWAKE Of III
There are 14D l9Qlnocratic fosd3 ALTOGETHER
iE tho precinct. AZ the feaulhr box 81 Of
these voters appeared and cast their goies tqr
put Ia the box. The lhcfpNlele9ates ~
eeisGat ihegeforei n eleaT majority " ln QI
tbs eptire neiilpcassic yQss IN the pFgeeinqE
~ GQtt0npQrt tge delsgaFesli tle Ea
FORM cQsiiIpiHeignefs deliberate y closed flle
pollB IN the fRChe OF nun1bey NJ voters Who
deaiiea 70 dHpesls 4hofpl ballois, apd re-
Tie POLLS Nsre Closed long before lie accus-
toned norr, and the Thorpe delegates con-
tested Pc boz on shit erquhd.
easlnf tlie t'ojts9nlgrt precinct 2at n tlle
the w entitled to SIT VI tka pari3h cppyen,
ti0ll. M clea7 inaiorltg 81 H lnciudiuR
Sottenporh thsiF olalqfiiy Wa8 iS Mllen
they refused ~ Submit to ibe unjust, ilupafs
liaEtentaFs anQ tgTaupfeai rulings AZ Judge
faH1in, and Yilhdrf ~ e otRQni1e qisewNcfel
they left behind eng ,idili9 MAyeptf of Cno9-
pique, Riid tho CottonAqft atlqgatiQnl plily
3 delegatce Dlo iiad any sqtY Of eredenEals
Hcribe moments consideration. ttfequilsd
A. xqles "a ccpeiitlia qlloruI9; but tiiH
1aei dia not Htand III the Meg "a VIE re-
Ssn SisBQll ssse A .lts n, Rsris W.
stse 81 fonr 70 one. They had utterly failed
a qelifat ZIG fotf bad d feet, been pepi
plaies rau5ad hut they 5etfrmiised To de-
ge.hef rtdotci upa tqt d contests, voted
The Cllopplduc dplegaton Of ton, pine of
whom bad conii9nDtpuusig refused u haXe
ans ihifiE tg dQ With I'd rufip, AND th6r ON
cueted 40 choose 8 crilEFt ianal dpleEtL iQr,
! aaell y 'IaiornL " Agoglllaa.